UndoDB reversible debugging tool for Linux

What is UndoDB?

UndoDB's performance and low memory consumption allows you to step your application backward, as well as forward, faster than any other commercial or open-source reversible debugger. By stepping back in your program, setting a watchpoint or replaying non-deterministic bugs, you can get straight to the root cause of the bugs upsetting your customers, decreasing your productivity and slowing your software releases.

Features

Step back line-by-line or wind back to most recent given function

Debug programs which use shared memory

Wind back/forth to an arbitrary point in time

Just 1.7x slow-down compared to native execution

Debug multithreaded applications

Use at the command line, from Eclipse, DDD or Emacs

Testimonials

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Reversible debugging on Linux that really works

The UndoDB Linux debugger uses a "snapshot-and-replay" technique, which stores periodic copy-on-write snapshots of the application and non-deterministic inputs (system calls, thread-switches, shared memory reads, etc). This means a typical CPU-intensive application can run with just 1.7x slow-down compared to native execution, and IO bound applications at close to native speed. Memory requirements are also (comparatively) extremely low.

Being quicker when fixing bugs

Debugging dominates software development. By augmenting familiar debugging operations with reverse counterparts, bugs that would usually take days or weeks to solve can - literally - be found and fixed in minutes. The return on investment here is clear: the less time developers spend debugging, the more time they spend adding value to your business; being quicker when fixing bugs enables you to release better quality software, hit your schedules and delight your customers.

Quality is a non-negotiable aspect of our software development. When we do encounter bugs we need to resolve them as quickly as possible. Recently we had an intermittent issue and were unable to resolve it using traditional debugging techniques. We switched to an Undo session and we were able to run in reverse to locate the root cause in a matter of a few hours. Undo enabled us to resolve this issue and quickly provide a fix for our customer.

Jonathan DeKock
Senior Software Architect
Cadence Design Systems

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How other people use Undo Products

You don’t have to take our word for it. Some of the world’s leading software companies are already using UndoDB to revolutionise their approach to debugging, saving hours if not days every time they find a bug. To give a more detailed understanding of how UndoDB can transform your workflow, just take a look at our most recent case study. This shows how Cadence integrated UndoDB with its existing workflows to find bugs that were previously proving impossible to locate. To read it, simply download the pdf below.